Ron Prince hired as Analyst, per 247
Per 247, Harbaugh has hired former Kansas State head coach and Lions O-Line coach as their new analyst.
He wasn't really good in either positions, but it's just an analyst position, right.....
http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2018/03/ex-lions_offensive_line_coach.html
When and why did we get rid of Gwen Bush? I must have missed. I seem to recall (prior to this last class) that it seemed every other recruit mentioned how much they loved her. Did we really not notice how important she was?
Snyder is an absolute genius, who turned a perennial doormat into a consistent winner.
KSU and ISU are probably the most challenged Power 5 programs. No recruiting base, middle of nowhere, no history or winning tradition whatsoever.
Every other coach at KSU has struggled, forever.
So, it's not that Prince was so bad, but rather that Snyder is an amazing old warlock.
with his brash personality. None of the NFL coaches and players have good things to say about Prince.
Larry Warford didn't want to come back to the Lions because of Ron Prince.
Taylor Decker basically relied on LeCharles Bentley's coaching from the off-season workouts bc he knows that Prince's coaching is shit.
Prince was the run game coordinator and Lions were dead last because their scheme sucked despite having the talent to be a top 5 OL in the league.
he's a shell of himself after a foot injury in which he doesn't look as explosive as he was in his rookie year. He almost ran for over 100 yards against a vaunted Vikes defense.
Run scheme is awful and does not fit the JBC's system at all. I've heard several NFL people laughing at their scheme because it was bad.
Ameer fumbled the ball one time last season which goes against that he is fumble prone. Theo Riddick fumbled the ball one time last season as well.
Ball security isn't the problem for Ameer.
I certainly didn't watch the Prince era at KSU closely. My point is that comparing anyone to Snyder is really unfair. The "little apple" might be a fine little college town (have no idea), but it's a prison sentence for a head coach.
IMO, Snyder deserves to be on the short list of greatest coaches ever - how he succeeds there is miraculous.
Absolutely defer to your experience with Prince. Didn't really intend to defend his tenure.
I love me some Michigan/East Coast/West Coast arrogance.
It was completely unintentional, but yeah, I see your point. Guilty as charged.
The prison sentence part referred only to the difficulty of the job (really).
For kicks, I did a quick google of Manhattan. It's bigger than I thought - about 55k, though certainly still a small town. While the photos showed some stately old buildings, there were lots of pictures of parking lots and eerily quiet streets. And grass. Lots of grass.
Your actual knowledge of the place is interesting to me - is it a nice town? Good school? I really haven't ever thought too much about it, other than how difficult it must be to coach football there.
Great college town and has really grown even more since I graduated around 2000. Biggest problem is proximity obviously. It is about a 2 hour drive from KC. There is a municipal airport that you can at fly into now that wasn’t there when I was in school. That was always an issue when recruiting kids from the Coasts that had never been to the Midwest. They would fly in to KC and then have to drive 2 hours to Manhattan seeing nothing but farm land after getting out of KC. It really helps being able to fly them directly in to Manhattan. I was friends with a player and he told me great stories about some of the CA players. Some of them would have a house full of people waiting for them when they got back from a recruiting trip asking them questions about horses, cows, and if we had cars, etc. Pretty good stuff.
Sigh. Shoulda been Les Miles
Is he gonna be in charge of clipboards or putting paper on clipboards or the guy that arranges the signs on the sidelines so the offense knows which cartton character to emulate in the upcoming play?
Jebus there are a lot of positions in this program that no one outside of JH know what they do.
I don't get this hire at all. HIs track record with coaching sucks and all the reports that I've read say his personality rubs people the wrong way. Not an amazing combination to have but f*ck what do I care? All I asked for Christmas was to have Drevno gone so everything after that is gravy.
Please don't promote him once he's here to anything higher than that
Are we gonna have the Power Towel
Basketball wins the tourney and we all feel good. Football has Fergus get pulled over for a DUI before Noon and hires a Grade A jackass in Ron Prince.
